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dunno if anyone on the list listens to clock dva.. but if so, can anyone give some info? what do they sound like? similiarities? reccomendations? - wells oliver / s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu " when our worlds they fall apart when the walls come tumbling in though we may deserve it it will be worth it."

At 2:08 AM -0400 9/5/97, wells wrote:

quoted 2 lines dunno if anyone on the list listens to clock dva.. but if so, can anyone

>dunno if anyone on the list listens to clock dva.. but if so, can anyone >give some info? what do they sound like? similiarities? reccomendations?

It's kind of hard to say what they sound like, as different releases are likely to be entirely different. For example, "Thirst" is a bit jazzy and "song" oriented, while "The Hacker" is fast and totally robotic, and "The Act" (on an EP with "The Hacker" is dark ambient strangeness like some early Skinny Puppy stuff. (Disclaimer: I am not a ClockDVA expert by any means.) (Trivia that every other ClockDVA aficionado probably already knew except me: "dva" is Russian for "two", and there is a little clock icon showing two o'clock on the cover of many of their releases. Until someone told me about "dva", I was completely in the dark as to what DVA stood for.) np: Laswell/Inoue "Cymatic Scan" __ Ben Cox cox@transarc.com

In a message dated 9/5/97 8:05:43 AM, you wrote:

quoted 2 lines dunno if anyone on the list listens to clock dva.. but if so, can anyone

>dunno if anyone on the list listens to clock dva.. but if so, can anyone >give some info? what do they sound like? similiarities? reccomendations?

reminds me of Lassigue Bendthaus earlier stuff, but with lower key almost gruff vocals. get "Buried Dreams" first! there is someone else, but I can't remember who at the moment.

Hi there,

quoted 2 lines dunno if anyone on the list listens to clock dva.. but if so, can anyone

> dunno if anyone on the list listens to clock dva.. but if so, can anyone > give some info? what do they sound like? similiarities? reccomendations?

From what I remember, the album Buried Dreams was OK. A bit industrial-ish, slightly like Coil in places. bye, Eric.

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>Subject: (idm) clock dva > >dunno if anyone on the list listens to clock dva.. but if so, can anyone >give some info? what do they sound like? similiarities? reccomendations?

As far as this list goes, get _Digital_Soundtracks_ or you'll kick yourself. Check that ... get _Digital_Soundtracks_ or I'll kick you. =) It's from 1992, and out on an Italian label called Contempo. It's a good one to start with, anyway, because it doesn't have any vocals ... and while there are many worse vocalists in the industrial world, DVA's aren't by any means fantastic. And -- what can I say -- it's got that _classic_ vibe to it, like that first Woob album or something. In general, DVA happily tread that no-man's-land between industrial and techno, in somewhat the same manner as Psychick Warriors ov Gaia. Simple rhythms and sequences, dark vocals and samples, not noisy like a lot of industrial is (but rather with a characteristically bad/odd EQ signature). They're really into cognitive philosophy, and their liner notes are full of curious and grammatically-poor rantings on the subject. You would do well to check out tracks like "Soundmirror", "Hacker (Hacked)", and "Eternity" as a next step. --Seofon